nards444

I have ordered 5-6 vehicles going back 15 years at different dealers without anything.

most likely you have a base trim level

Never had a car where the passenger side had the post built into the carpet to snap these down. Its feature for the driver so it doesnt get caught in the pedals.

No. The ones that come with it I wouldnt be surprised if they are made by weathertech

I use mine quite a bit. But I can see where there studies have shown this

wife has it in her acadia, purposely left it off of my AT4. Really dont see the value in it between its screw ups it has, and annoyance. To me its not mature technology yet, and will avoid it until it is.

CarID, autoanything etc. find the exact part then start asking for bonus's. Usually can get a few extra bucks out of one of them.

Not sure what mirror you are talking about as there are two kinds out there. First one flips down and the full mirror is a screen and basically is a real time of whats behind you coming from the tailgate, wife has this on her acadia, its nice in a way but is also distracting and kind of can get you sick if you look at it The second one which I had on my 21 2500 was button and showed the bed in a square on one side of the mirror. Honestly it sucked, only stayed on for like 8 seconds and didnt work at all at night. Adding options like this used to be easy 10 years ago, as the plugs were there, you bought the item plugged it in and off you went. Manufactures got smart, while the plug is probably still there, you can just plug it in anymore. Chances are the dealer will activate that feature which many charge for, if they even do it or can do it.

If your talking routine maint the cost negligible. Going to dealer your going to pay double for the oil change. Do it yourself cost will be close to the same, newer duramaxes dont take that much oil, older power strokes had like 14 qts, think my 21 was only like 8. And youll be doing fuel filters a year. Here is where the cost in the diesel comes, the 10k upfront charge, break fix maint on the engine is probably about double the cost if that occurs, and while a diesel gets 15-20% better mpg your going to spend 70 cents to 1.50 more per gallon at fill up or another $17 bucks up to $50 more a fill up. Bottom line is youll never save money or recoup the cost of the diesel unles that truck is your job.

Owned a 21 Duramax now into a 22 GMC gasser. while the 6.6 is better then the 6.0 its not on the same planet as the diesel. Every day driving you probably wont notice much, although my 22 is a complete dog in certain rpm ranges. I switched out because $200 fill ups for minor hauling just wasnt worth it.

Towing wise what you are describing, a half ton could handle. The 2500 gasser will definitely handle that, and you wouldnt need a dually. I have a 22 gasser it hauls fine, but after owning many diesels including a 21 diesel, theres no comparison between the two. With that said i made the switch because the amount of towing and weight just couldnt justify the $200 fill ups anymore with diesel.

Thats where Im at. do what the book says and move on. Theres no empirical data saying doing it early or playing around does anything. Reality is americans dont keep cars past 12 years old, average age is more like 8-9. WIth average mileage being 12k a year, your talking 120k miles. A lot of that is for good reason. The motor its self is rarely the reason the car dies or its time to ditch it. Salt kills everything around it, trans, diffs, electronics etc. New cars often are cheaper insurance, more fuel efficient and some cost are offset that way. Also with newer cars electronics are expensive. You can have your 15 year old car that is worth 4k, but the dash goes out and its a 3k fix, not worth keeping it around.

Thats the reality up here with salt. Your just not getting more than 12-15 years before its rotted out, which is anywhere from 150-300k miles. There are some outliers where the old man grocery gitter is still alive and the few hoopties driving around, in general most are ditching cars around 10 year mark.

Engines do not need break in periods like they used to, even te manual says so. To me there is some common sense, give everything a few miles then have at it. A lot of old wives tales out there, same goes for the 3k oil change, there is nothing from manufacture, experts, oil experrts to point to this, but you still have the peace of mind guys out there. GM has an interest in ensuring these things are good for 100-150k, on average people are getting new cars around 7-8 years or around 100-120k miles. Me personally Im not going past 50-60k much less 100k, for me its the next guys problem.

All the vehicles Ive ever had, never had push updates that changed anything like on a phone, just make bug fixes. With that said doesnt mean that day isnt coming. Be careful with saying paid, before you know it were paying to use our own dashboards.